Same boat as you as in trying to get in shape soo I've been little by little getting used to the idea of working out. Sooo here and there when I'm not doing anything I'll do pushups dumbell curls (what ever i have) and do reps until I start to feel the burn and stop when I get out of breath. This helps me dip my toes in da water for more advance sessions. P.s thanks for reminding me that I gotta do more serious work lol good luck brotha

Yeah I've been doing like a pretty light morning and night routine that's basically just push ups, crunchs, squats (all until they become difficult to do so), then practice my stance and shadow box a bit. It's helped a lot in terms of just getting back into moving. Haven't put in much roadwork, that's always been an issue for me though.

I go to boxing class as much as work will allow (sometimes 4 per week, usually 3, sometimes less).

I had to work my way up to that volume of exercise. My progress was limited by feet and shins at first, and I would replace running with rowing as required to allow recovery. Jumping rope also took a toll on feet and shins.

Most important of all was managing nutrition and rest. I've been using the myfitnesspal app for nutrition, and trying to get >7 hours per night of rest.

Congratulations on getting started with boxing, and good luck on your boxing journey.

Hey I appreciate this, really helpful stuff here. My feet and shins are a huge concern for me, stoked to hear substituting other cardio is acceptable, or at least practiced. I pretty much constantly hear that I need to just push through it but man, like, the shin splints can be just plain debilitating and I don't think people who haven't been heavy recognize that.

I don't really have anyone I'd call a friend in real life, just a handful of them online, but they all live in different time zones, so I think it would be difficult to set up a game like that.

Where do I find clubs like that? I mean, there's a comic book shop that holds tabletop games sessions now and then, but it's 15 km from where I live and since I can't drive yet, I can't go there whenever I want (and my parents wouldn't drive me there for such a thing).

The quote were discussing here says there's no point in engagement, because they don't operate in the same realm as others. I tend to agree with the quote, arguing with absurd beliefs only legitimizes those beliefs.

Yeah, read through that. Not sure it supports and of your claims. The Budget deficit had been an increasing problem since 2003, 5 years before he took office, and a huge blow of over 15 billion in revenue lost in 2007, the year before he took office. The Democrats built the majority of his budget and he even eventually raised some taxes even though his party was opposed to it.

Sounds like your claims are barely justified at all and the opposite is mostly true.

Honestly, youre just a loud idiot. Your motives and agenda are clear, and you preface it with 'Its just a dream bro' when you get a real discussion around your tax theory, and yell everyone down. You aren't clever, nor are you right, just annoying. SAD!

There's no need for insults if you disagree with me or the setup of our electoral system. I believe the electoral college through our federal republic is preferable to a direct democracy, are you too dense to understand our system? Or how a direct democracy can lead to tyranny?

Btw, our electoral college is Democratic but you probably just want to argue semantics.

The tax burden to maintain and build those utilities and services relys on the whole contingent populace participating. I doubt anybody who pays taxes in the US doesn't use the roads or sewers. Fire and police services are designed to protect the public's interests, fires hurt entire town infrastructure and are potentially damaging to other people's property. Criminal activity is similarly handled by the police.

I'm a person who believes taxes are the cornerstone of a functional social democracy (in which I live, where we have universal healthcare, etc to pay for). But in your opinion, maybe that makes me an idiot.

Yeah deductions are a way to offset your tax rate. I believe in taxes just the same as you, and I pay more in taxes than 75% of people in this country make in a year, but I feel like you have a complete misunderstanding of what deductions do for you.

Let's say you have an income of 100$ a month, and you have claimed 0 dependents on your W2, let's say that means they will withhold 40% of your earnings. You walk away with 60$.

This is not your tax rate, this is your tax withholdings, you are not required nor obliged to pay that much in taxes, but you essentially give the government an interest free loan of your tax dollars for that time.

Come tax season, you open up turbo tax, enter in JUST your income information and there is a distinct likelihood you will be eligible for a return due to the base % in your withholding being greater than the base tax rate. On top of this, there are things that the government has decided to make deductible. Deductions do not reduce the amount of taxes you pay intrinsically, they reduce the amount of taxable income you owe taxes on.

Let's say one of those deductions is interest on mortgage payments. The government is offsetting the tax of your mortgage interest ( which the recipient of the payment has to pay taxes on ) away from you by saying any income you make ( let's say 10$ of that initial 100$ ) that goes directly towards this specific purpose will not be taxed.

So right now after withholdings and your mortgage, you walk away with 50$. At the end of the tax year, when you file your taxes to the govt, you submit all relevant deductions along side your filing, the IRS will conclude that your total taxable income was 90$ ( due to the deductions ) and you paid 40$ on your 100$ income. The obvious discrepancy here being that you were taxed on income that the govt doesn't count as income, so you are owed a return that brings you back to the effective tax rate for your income.

The way you describe morality in this makes me think you think deductions are just asking for money back from the government, which is simply not the case.

The way you describe morality in this makes me think you think deductions are just asking for money back from the government, which is simply not the case.

No, I understand the system perfectly well. I simply do not believe that any of that, including paying mortgage, having children, etc, should reduce my taxes in any way. Honestly, I believe taxes are ridiculously low (and the money received from citizens mismanaged, such as ridiculous amounts spent on war, etc). We should all be paying more taxes to support our country, but the wealthy should be paying significantly more while the upper middle class should be paying more, while people like me (slightly above median individual income) should be paying a bit more. Anyone at or below the median individual income should not pay taxes at all (possibly they should get money thrown at them since the US welfare system is so shit).

Like i just feel like you fundamentally misunderstand how the tax burden works on the individual. You not claiming deductions doesnt increase the pool of money that would benefit anyone in any way, all you do is lose money and it just goes to fund god knows what.

If you want to pay more taxes to the benefit of the populus than vote for legislature that does so, until then you are literally throwing your income away.

It was suggested earlier, but if you were to take the difference in taxes owed deductions vs non-deductions and donate that to literally anything, then you have a moral stance on your hands, but to just say 'Eh fuck it, take my money that i want to go to helping people and spend it on guns' is truly idiocy.

Also you do understand the tax benefits of home ownership and having children are designed to help families by easing their tax burden, its tax incentives as a means of welfare. You just dont make any real sense here man...